Julia Heaberlin, thriller author of Playing Dead and Black-Eyed Susans, stops by the Old Monk to talk about the rich rewards of the book business, her days a newspaper editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the time she was briefly Tim Rogers' boss.

Hosts: Tim Rogers, Zac CrainTheme music: Shibboleth's "The Bavarian," from the 2008 album Experiment in Error (Idol Record

Skip Hollandsworth, former D Magazine writer and now executive editor of Texas Monthly, stopped by the Old Monk to talk about his newly published book, The Midnight Assassin, about the unsolved mystery of a serial killer in 19th-century Austin.

Hosts: Tim Rogers, Zac CrainTheme music: Shibboleth's "The Bavarian," from the 2008 album Experiment in Error (Idol Record